November 25, 2025 • 37 mins
The Clippers have a chance to make some noise in the NBA Cup…will the defense be able to hold up? Clips N Dip talks tonight's game vs the Lakers, and the DeMar DeRozan rumors.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
What is going on? Clippers fans, Welcome to a pretty
impromptu Clippers versus Lakers preview here on Clips and Dip.
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your favorite Clippers podcast. Adam and Will might join. I
wanted to talk about Clippers Lakers before we kind of
take a fair break just because of the Turkey based holiday.
Thanks for hanging out. The Clippers are five and twelve.
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Oh that made me laugh. Jeffrey Bell tran Jeffrey Bell
trans in the chat and he said, I am terrified
for tonight. We're gonna get to tonight. The Clippers are
five and twelve after losing to the Calves. The Clippers
did play some good basketball against the Calves. There was
two horrific ends to two quarters, which was tough. We
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obviously the end, I think it was the end of
the first and then the end of the third were
a nightmare. But in between that the Clippers actually played
again good basketball in for periods of this time, the
better basketball that we've seen in a while, I should say.
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But I'm a little worried. For tonight, we are going
to talk about DeMar DeRozan. People in the chat are
asking about it. Jonah is the best feels good for tonight.
They changed everything up on how we stream our stuff,
so I feel like there's not as much to everything
as there was, and that is frustrating to me. Why
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can't I change my goddamn name tag? There we go
found it anyway, the Clippers play the Lakers. People are
not feeling good in the chat, I'm a little terrified
about it. Alex Webb is going to the game at
Cryptocom Arena, which is awesome. I appreciate that. There we
go these bastards. Good luck, Alex. I don't think you'll
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need it, but I think good luck to everybody tonight.
I can finally get there we go. Now we're back.
Sorry about that, everybody. I know everyone was invested in
the name tag design as I was just there. So
this is a great point that Mexican Nara same. Zoo
should feast tonight. The Clippers are not. The Clippers will
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not be playing uh DeAndre Ayton. The Lakers are gonna
start Jackson Hayes. So Zoo, I mean, Zoo was phenomenal
versus the Calves. Zoo's had a great last ten games.
He's averaging twenty and thirteen over the last ten games
of Viatza zubots is. So there's momentum, right, there's there's
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a lot of momentum for Zobots to have a good game.
This is a very important Group B NBA Cup game.
Adam Osland, who is anti NBA Cup, is not on
right now, but I would like to win this game
for Cup reasons because it would be fun to I
don't know who cares if they make fun of the Clippers,
it's gonna happen anyway. The Clippers are probably gonna start Harden,
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Done Collins, Kawhi, and Zoo. This lineup was a plus
nineteen point two overall net in twelve minutes versus the Calves.
Kawhi was moving well versus the Calves. Again, there were
some good things to build on against the Caps, who
are a very good basketball team. We're gonna need his
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defense to be on point tonight, because that's the big question, right.
The Clippers have been killed by guards all season, and
the Lakers are going to be starting Luka, Doncic, Austin Reeves,
Ruey Lebron, and then Hayes, so it's gonna be a
little difficult defensive assignment wise. Matthew Hooks says, as a
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MAVs fan, I feel the pain of my team underperforming
this year. Sure, you do have the number one overall
pick on your team, so enjoy all I say about that.
Thank you for hanging out, Matthew Hooks. The Clippers, like
I said, they've been killed by guards all year. Stopping
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Luca and Reeves is gonna be difficult. The thing that
I don't like about playing Luca in Reeves tonight, which
I mean there's a very good due. Obviously, last game
out versus the Jazz, these two went a combined four
for twenty from three. They're both not shooting well from
three this year. They're both shooting thirty one percent from
three this year, and they take the most threes for
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the Lakers. So I'm worried about that. Because guards have
gotten very comfortable behind the arc against the Clippers. Uh,
done is gonna be on Luca a little bit. I'm
a little worried about the whistle. The Lakers is a
team take the second most free throw attempts per game.
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Luca takes thirteen in a game, and Done's been a
little he goes through some foul happy periods. We're gonna
see done on him a little bit. Obviously, not for
the whole game. Yeah, it's gonna be. It's a tough
task right now for this Clippers defense. Kawhi probably on
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reeves to open right would I think that's gonna get
switched up, and then kawhile will probably shift towards Lebron
as the game progresses. Collins maybe starts on Lebron on
this game. But again, the big issue with the Lakers
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or with the Clippers defense has been guards kind of
feeling really comfortable, and we are playing a guard who
is very comfortable against the Clippers. Jonah is the best
asking do you think we go with Collins on Lebron?
It's usually Kawhi on Lebron. I think we're gonna see
a couple of different looks. I think later in the
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game we'll probably see Kawhi on Lebron for sure. I
think maybe in the beginning, especially because it's Kawhi's second
game back from a ten game absence. He was moving
really well against the Caps, but second game back, I
don't know if immediately he'll go to Lebron, but I
think we will see Kawhi on Lebron and we'll also
see Collins on Lebron. This would be a huge game
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for Derek Jones Junior for sure. Alex Webb, that was
a great point. This is where you've missed up again,
lengthy defender. Yeah, we're gonna talk about Collins. I guess
we can talk about it now because we're gonna talk.
I'll talk about the DeMar Deroz and stuff in a bit.
But Collins has not been good. Obviously, he was great
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coming off the bench when the team kind of had
the pillars there. But his shooting. I think his shooting
percentages should go up. He's shooting the second worst three
point percentage of his career and the worst two point
percentage of his career, so I think that should go up.
The rebounding has a little disappointing. He's it seems like
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he's forcing some stuff and defensively everyone has been bad,
so we can add him into that problem as well.
It's been a bit of a It's not a disaster
for Collins yet, but it might be. It's trending that way.
I guess. I don't like how it's been trending, but
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I do think the three point percentage and the two
point percentage is gonna go up again because it's like
the worst of his mark. I'll get him to the
extension stuff and how that relates to Tamar after we
kind of talked about this game a little bit more. Uh,
we talked about the guards. Luca is gonna try and
get Zoo on switches. We've seen that before. Uh, We've
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seen the horrors of how drop coverage can backfire, is
what my notes here say. So we're probably gonna see
that again. Uh. The Clippers defense has been really bad
at giving up cuts to the basket, and so the
pick and roll defense with Luca and Hayes is just
something to keep an eye on. Hopefully we don't have
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to avert our eyes from it, you know what I mean.
But that's just I'm a little worried about that chunk.
VV says Collins doesn't fit a half court offense never
has get rid of him for Lord and Savior key
on Ellis. I don't know if that would happen. I
mean that would be fun, I guess, but I don't
know if that would happen. Skim three point eighty with
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a fantastic profile pick. It's bad ass. Lisa Simpson says,
what zoos statline would we be happy with? Well, I
don't want to do too many like one for one
comps here, but his last ten games, I mean he
had thirty three and eighteen against the Cavs. I don't
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think we see that efficiency again. He got twenty two
field goal attempts in that one. It'd be nice if
we saw him get twenty two field goal attempts, but
that's been his most in the last twelve or so games.
So if you're if you're at twenty and ten and
you're anything above twenty and ten, I'm happy. But also
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the defense has to be there. Offensively, twenty and ten
sign me up for being obviously content with that, But
the defense. He has a bigger job on defense the offense.
It's not that I'm not worried about the offense obviously,
because it's not been that great. And Harden's had to
carry and will need help in this game, but the
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defense has been horrific. Kind of back to Collins, he's
too athletic. I think LA Clippers film posts a really
good tweet where he was like, College is too athletic
to get beat like this. He's just getting outright and
beat on a fast break against the Cavs. Just annoying. Yeah,
great call. College has thrived on fast paced teams like
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the Hots on the Hawks and the Jazz, but the
Clips play slow half court basketball. Yeah, it's a little tough. Well, also,
it's everything's just different, right, Like he had a full rotation,
I don't think he would be starting, and he was
good off the bench, right. He was showing that that
bench juice that the Clippers needed. Yeah, so this is
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actually himothy oo. This is a good kind of thing
into the benches. The Lakers have a really bad bench
scoring wise. I think it's the lowest scoring bench in
the league. Bogie's questionable for this game. For the Clippers,
having him back would be a theoretical nice shooting boost.
If he is hitting his shots, Kobe Sanders is gonna
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let it fly off the bench. I think Drew Timmy's
gonna get some time for the Lakers. So like the
benches are gonna be weird. Lopez can't be on the
court at the same time as Luca will be. I
don't think Tyler will let that happen. Uh barring, not
a weird whistle or something like that. Right, Like, let's
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just pretend that there's gonna be normal game playing here.
Lopez should not. I mean, he will get cooked by
Luca if he ends up on the switch. I think
there'd be like one possession where he looked okay and
it'd be early and we'd be like, no bad, and
then he would just get destroyed. I don't think uh
marky Mark is saying Bogie's gonna play twenty eight to
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thirty four minutes. I don't know about that. Yeah, that's
a great call Himpathy there's Stagger, Reeves, Luca, and Lebron
with the bench. This is where yeah, man, Lopez, Oh god,
it'll be it'll be interesting. So that's what's difficult about
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the Lakers right now. Uh, it's not just when Luca's
on the bench. Right, Reeves is very good. Lebron is
still Lebron, but he can get to the paint he
can pass, which has killed the Clippers. Uh So I'm
a little worried about this one defensively, Not that I'm
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like feeling great offensively or anything like that, but defensively
is where this one gets rough. Again. Defensively too, the
Lakers are second in free throw attempts per game, which
I don't like. I don't like that originale. I don't think.
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I'm probably not pronouncing that right. So the truth is
be Toom is still the best backup center of the Clips.
Have I trust some more outside of than Lopez. The
Lopez thing is so weird. He's been lat Murray put
it well. He said he's been marooned to behind the
three point line, which is true. And the defense, it's
just like there's flashes. But when you're an old team,
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what you get from a lot of these guys is
flashes of being able to get up right like and
things like that. So it's frustrating. I think that this
game feels like another one of those hardened putting up
an absurd stat at halftime and then the Clippers still
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being down, you know what I mean. Like it feels
like one of those games where it's like Harden's on
pace for thirty for forty eight points and Clippers are
down six or something like that. So I don't feel
super confident on either side of the ball, but I
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feel more confident about the Clippers offense and Drew Timmy.
Drew Timmy is probably gonna get some time to skim
three eighty saying do we need Brook out their cleaners
their backup? Big yeah, empathy, I think is talking about
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Collins here you talking about Lopez because they've both been
underwhelming rebounding wise. That's fair, Uh if the Yeah, the
Lakers have been staggering the bench, but they don't have
a lot of like can flash contributors off the bench,
I guess, But again, I don't feel super good Lopez,
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thank you, Himmathy. Yeah, agreed, it's been bad. He's old.
It's the spry year. Sorry, I'm still, I think technically
supposed to be working. Put your final score predictions into
the chat about Clippers Lakers NBA Cup tonight. We need
this one, We need this one to advance, and well
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we'll see what happens. Drive by Buddy saying I don't
really want to see Zoo or Lopez or Luca because
for some reason he shoots good over oh odd Luca.
Excuse me. They don't want to see Zoo or Lopez
on Luca because for some reason he shoots good over
big men from the out side or someone with quick
hands on him. I don't want to see it either,
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but we're gonna probably see it. Uh, he does shoot well,
but you're just like step back three. Whatever we're gonna be.
There's gonna be a lot of this tonight. Okay, that's
There's gonna be a lot of stuff like that, I
think from Clippers fans empathy saying we need the cup
manner Chuck. I know, I'm pro Cup. I would like
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to win the Cup too. This season has been kind
of a nightmare. Okay, So transitioning now, Audio. I don't
think I'm gonna do an ad break or anything. So
you're good there. Sam Ammick was reported he's a good source.
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He's not. He's not in the the negative source category
reported like the DeMar DeRozan stuff. But Inski's saying laughing
at pro Cup. Some people aren't Autam Mason not pro cup.
So DeMar DeRozan supposedly the Clippers are interested. Uh, there's
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been some scuttle butt about John Collins being traded for
DeMar DeRozan, which does work straight up, I don't think
the Clippers should do that. I mentioned earlier. Excuse me
that he's just he's had a horrible shooting start to
the season. I'm not arguing that he's like been good
or anything, but these are like career worse from two
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point and three point percentages. I think those will go up.
I think he just needs more time to see if
he's extension worthy. And to that point, DeMar DeRozan would
be on this team this year and then next season.
He only has ten million dollars as a partial guarantee,
so that again just based on scuttle but they would
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probably move off of that year. So DeMar Derozen would
play this year for the Clippers and then be on
the team anymore. To me, I don't think the Clippers'
success is capped this season, whether if they have DeMar
Derozen right oh instead of John Collins, Like if you
trade away John Collins for DeMar de Rosen, I think
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this team goes just as far as it would had
it had John Collins, and contractually, just looking past even
next year, there's only three guys on the books for
twenty seven to twenty eight, that is zoo, Yannick, and Cam.
So why not give Collins this chance to earn an
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extension so he can fit into this front office's plan.
And if he doesn't earn that extension, he's not on
the team, which doesn't which would be the same exact
scenario if DeMar DeRozan were to be on this team
next season. Yes, we would get some kind of small
value for DeMar DeRozan, but I think they should keep
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Collins specifically for DeMar Duau's. Alex Webb thinks the Clippers
are gonna win one twelve, one oh seven. Who baby
sign me up for the Clippers holding a team to
one oh seven. The Lakers have also run five in
a row, four in a row. I don't. But again,
so I think for for John Collins, I don't think
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they should trade that because it the season where I
think this team can go. Changes nothing if you swap
DeMar Duro's and for John Collins, and I think it
potentially hurts the future a little bit more. That's kind
of where how I feel about it and fit. While okay,
Regional managerer Michael Scott is here and fit wise, it's
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just like it doesn't help the defense, which is the
biggest problem. It does help with maybe turning the ball over.
John Collins can't handle the ball at all, but it's
not a great fit with hert And You're totally right.
It just makes us older. We lose any semblance of youth.
And I know John Collins isn't like incredibly young, but
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he's younger than the Clippers than most of the other Clippers.
I just feel like it's a lateral move in terms
of this season, and I think it's a detrimental move
possibly for the next two or three seasons, just because like,
why not let Collins try and earn an extension, because
I don't think he'd sign one with the Clippers if
we trade them away and then he plays well or something.
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And again not to say that Collins has been good,
it's been rough. I think coming off the bench he
looked good, but he hasn't clicked with the starters. I
just think they should give they should give Collins another
a longer shot, you know, just for the future. Wise,
like no one is on the books in two years.
The only actual player for the Clippers on the books
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in twenty seven twenty is Zoo and there is and
then Yanik and Camp. That's the only guys on the
books for twenty seven to twenty eight, which is kind
of rapidly approaching, and they want to try and they
keep talking about how they're kind of moving on a
little bit. I don't know how getting rid of John
Collins for DeMar Deroze for a rental of DeMar DeRozan
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helps the long term plan it anyway. Uh, you could
also trade DeMar Derozen for Bogie and Lopez, but I
don't know that doesn't make any sense from like uh
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like Yannic. I don't think is ready to be the
backup five. And if they're making this trade, they're not.
They're doing it to try and win more games, so
they would. I don't know. It just it just feels messy.
It doesn't feel like there's a move with DeMar that works.
WHOA we got a crazy Ronald mcpaul said, Clippers need
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to expose the Lakers starting defense. As a Lakers fan
also Clippers fan whirlwind here, if the Clippers don't turn
the ball over and they moved the ball like they
did for periods of time versus the Cavs defense, I
think they have a shot. It's it's really just is
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the defense. The defense is very bad. So those are
kind of my thoughts on Deamar, Like I don't he
doesn't raise the ceiling in any way that I think, like,
we're not the sixth seed right now looking to move
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up for home court advantage, you know, Like law Murray
said a very funny thing that I do kind of
agree with where he talks about a lot of people
are freaking out, and a lot of it is because
maybe there's some newer Clippers fans who hop who came
over when two and three happen and this is the
worst they've ever seen the Clippers do. If that is you,
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that's totally okay. But it's also fine, like everything this
is not. But to my point, sorry, to my point
of the Clippers on the DeMar DeRozan trade, we're not
like fighting for a for home court advantage, right Raymond?
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Are what's up? Raymond? He said, what's up? Shock? I'll
be it into it for a watch party. Let's go clips.
I don't know if I can read this part, uh,
because I want to get you in trouble, but I
will show it on the screen. That'd be very funny.
That's very funny. Also, if you're not, if you haven't
seen any of Eric Buize art recently, he makes elite
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depressed Clippers fan art. It's awesome. He did our background,
which can even see I'm making it worse. Either way,
our background looks awesome. So the DeMar trade, again, we're
not like sitting at the sixth seed looking up trying
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to maybe get home court advantage. The Clippers are five
and twelve. They are just for reference there, I guess
they're only seven games out of the four spot. It's
not that good. Uh So yeah, like we're not We're
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not a piece away from making noise or anything like that.
So I don't see a reason to trade for DeMar
DeRozan when you have a guy you can maybe just
see if he can get he can earn the extension
and then be part of your quasi future. Because again,
I think DeMar DeRozan would be off the team after
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this season because of his contract. So but Enski saying,
I think the Clips are screwed this season regardless, I
just don't want our pick to be too awesome for Okac.
I mean, yeah, I agree too, but like, how many
more games do the Clippers win with DeMar DeRozan instead
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of John Collins? Like, is it that much different? I
think they're gonna play better than they've shown that they
are through these I know it's been seventeen games. I
think they're better than what they've shown through these seventeen games.
I don't think they're world beaters obviously anymore. But I
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just don't see the big difference in this team if
they have DeMar DeRozan instead of John Collins or DeMar
de Rozan instead of Bogie and whatever. Hell yeah, Ronald mcpaul, Darius,
Oh knuckleheads man, they're not wrong with that. Sammy In says,
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I think we need derosen people in the chatter saying
blow it up. We've talked about blowing it up before
on this pod, and I'm gonna wait till we're all together,
because there's what are we blowing it up for a
bunch of second round picks. I just don't know what
to like he makes He helps Harden with some of
the ball handling, for sure. I just don't see the
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difference in ceiling again, because I think it would only
be for this year. Thank you for the counter argument,
Sammy in for if we get Derosan to stabilize the bench,
we get hard and plus de Rosen. I think we
can make the playoff as a plan. I think yeah.
I think playoff with playing is also doable with Collins too.
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Would de Rozan come off the bench as he mentioned
anything about that, I'm sure he would. I just like
in my head he would start because Beel's out, if
Beel's healthy, do they want to Rosen two? I think
you would start. I think because you just put him in.
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Uh duns plays. No, they can't do that because it
dephens be terrible. Huh off the bench, Angel Garcias, what
are we sipping on? This is? Oh, there used to
be ice on this. That is four roses and soda.
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Four roses and a lemon Cello Lacroix. If you want
a delicious whiskey soda mixer, lemon Cello Lacroix makes it
taste like cake. Someone said Himothy, I mean, Chuck, do
we lose without the picks or lose with some level
of picks? Fair? Uh? But I also think the front office.
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I think I've maybe resigned myself to the Clippers, not
blowing it up because the front office has no interest
in that. Balmer doesn't want to put out a shit product.
Not that the product's been elite at five and twelve,
but the idea of an elite product is there, so
I don't know. This also factors into a longer thing
where Harden is really helping sell tickets to the Into
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It Dome, which I hope Steve Baumer is helping him out. Wait, no,
I take that back. I hope Steve Walmer is paying
him the exact amount of money and giving him the
normal perks he should for for helping fill the into
It Dome. Because James Harden is carrying that areada right now?
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I mean, yeah, if Keon Ellis was used in the deal,
that'd be amazing. But are the would the Kings be
dumb enough? I don't know if they'd do that. Yeah,
if the Clippers could get Keon Ellis, that would be
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because that'd be awesome. I'd love that deal if I
got Keon Ellis. But would they do that? I know
they're not playing him, but we're again, we're not dealing
with a rational organization. You know what I mean? I don't.
We're not dealing with an organization that's like, well, we're
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not playing them, let's not trade them. Let's trade him.
They would I know, I agree, I know he's getting DNPS,
but we're not dealing with a rational organization. Yeah, Raymond saying,
news Alert ball with the latest minority investor in Adidas.
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That'd be a good bit. Yeah. See, this is kind
of the starting line of point. Yeah, the starting lineup
was plus nineteen against the Calves. Maybe it just needs
more time. But if we were able to get Keon
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Ellis without turning away John Collins, that'd be sick. Sign
me up for that for sure. Clips for Life, yes, sir,
saying how hard is it to talk to Clips when
they are playing this badly? It's not that hard to
talk about the Clips when they're playing this badly. Will
and I used to do a daily pot. We used
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to Will and I used to was locked on Clips.
That was harder because that was five days a week
when they were playing bad. But it's not bad. It's
also like, again, if you're a Clippers fan, you've seen
this team be really bad, and the team is bad
because they're playing bad. I don't know, It's it's not
as hard as it seems, but I also don't have
to do it every single day. Shout out Dime for
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hosting locked on clips and talking about a team with
every single day when they're bad, because the every single
day podcast grind. When they're not playing well, it's not
very fun. Shout out Damien Ace Boogey saying where's Adam?
The other two had to work? Usually it's Adam Os
and William Updyke and myself Chuck Buckler. I technically didn't
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have to work, so I think they're all working, but
they have the link tweet at him. Actually, don't tweet
at him. I think they're doing normal things. So if
you're just dropping in to sum it up, pretty nervous
for tonight. The starter showed some good stuff against the Calves,
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but guards have been getting off against I'm gonna keep
it in. I'm keeping that phrasing against the Clippers. Sami
In for saying, what do you think the matchups look
like today? Colin's on Luca are done. I think maybe
it starts with done on Luca. They gotta mix the
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looks up. Oh, something I haven't talked about. Sorry about this.
I forgot about this in the beginning. They gotta put
Luca in motion on defense like they got. They gotta
put Luca in motion on defense. If they're not doing that,
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there's there's an issue. So for tonight, the Clippers very much.
Make Luca work on defense. We know that from all
the MAVs games. Make Lebron move around. I know he's
he's he is Lebron, but he's old. Make Jackson Hayes
have to make decisions. They don't foul a lot. I
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think like teams are. Yeah, they only give up the
fourth most free throws per game, so again, making their
lesser defenders have to make decisions really helps or could
help the Clippers. They're also thirtieth the turnover They turn
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the ball over a lot. So if the Clippers are
able to mitigate their boneheaded mistakes, if the Clippers can
just not, if the Clippers can cut out the like
four turnovers per game that make you want to punch
a hole in your TV, I their chances are a
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lot better tonight. Obviously I feel good about that. So
I think trouser Jay Slack's asking Kawhi on Reeves then,
or does he get the Lebron assignment to hide Collins
on Reeves so I think. I think Kawhi is going
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to be on Lebron closer to the end of the game,
and he might be on Reeves to start just to
prevent some kind of hot start. I don't know, it's
an issue. We have a thunderfan in the chat. Get
out of here. You're welcome. I know we're twenty ninth,
but we need to not be twenty ninth. If we
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could be twenty fifth, if the Clippers are just twenty
fifth in turnovers per game tonight, I feel better about
our chances. Someone said something, yeah, Sammy said what's up? Sammy?
And for I think this is the first time you've
been on the stream, so what's up? This has to
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be a big Zoobots game. Yes, Zubots again. The last
ten games, Zoo is averaging like twenty and thirteen. I
think I think expecting twenty and ten from Zoo tonight
is completely reasonable if you're a Clippers fan, and we
should expect that. Because it's against Jackson Hayes, Zoo should
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be able to go off again. The pick and roll
with Harden and Zoo against Luca and Jackson Hayes should
be used a lot. It probably will be, but it
definitely should be. You know what I'm saying. We need
to put him in motion a lot on defense. Trowser J.
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Slacks is gonna be at the game. That'll be a
good time. Man. I haven't been to Crypto in so long,
possibly unpopular take. I very much miss the convenience of
Crypto as a place to go watch games. It was
a fun time d t LA Friday nights for the
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Clippers at Staples. That was a good time, all right.
I think I'm gonna get out of here. Thank you
for hanging out. If you're listening on audio, you miss
the live stream. If you want to hang out on
the live stream, subscribe to YouTube dot Comish at Clippers
podcast Usually it's myself, Adam Oz and William Updyke. We're
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gonna be kind of spotty with coverage this week again
because of the holiday. Sammy inf saying I think hardin
On ironically would be a good Luca defender. He's very
strong and does Luke is fabating tendencies and the low
post for sure. We'll see how the foot speed is again.
I'm worried about the outside shooting from Luca and Austin
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briefs if you're listening to this later, I hope. I
hope they continue to shoot thirty one from three. I
hope that happens tonight, but we'll see. Thank you for
everyone for hanging out in the chat. I hope everyone
has a good holiday. If you're not celebrating the holiday,
hope you have a good couple of days off, take advantage,
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have a safe weekend, like and subscribe all that good stuff,
and we will see y'all probably over the weekend. Anyway,
let's go clips. Here's to a win tonight. Here's getting
that NBA cup. I have been Chuck Mockler. Sorry I'm
laughing because someone says I hate the into an app.
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No comment, but feel you all right. Thank you everybody.
Have a great rest of your day and weekend. Holiday
What is going on? Clippers fans, Welcome to a pretty
impromptu Clippers versus Lakers preview here on Clips and Dip.
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your favorite Clippers podcast. Adam and Will might join. I
wanted to talk about Clippers Lakers before we kind of
take a fair break just because of the Turkey based holiday.
Thanks for hanging out. The Clippers are five and twelve.
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Oh that made me laugh. Jeffrey Bell tran Jeffrey Bell
trans in the chat and he said, I am terrified
for tonight. We're gonna get to tonight. The Clippers are
five and twelve after losing to the Calves. The Clippers
did play some good basketball against the Calves. There was
two horrific ends to two quarters, which was tough. We
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obviously the end, I think it was the end of
the first and then the end of the third were
a nightmare. But in between that the Clippers actually played
again good basketball in for periods of this time, the
better basketball that we've seen in a while, I should say.
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But I'm a little worried. For tonight, we are going
to talk about DeMar DeRozan. People in the chat are
asking about it. Jonah is the best feels good for tonight.
They changed everything up on how we stream our stuff,
so I feel like there's not as much to everything
as there was, and that is frustrating to me. Why
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can't I change my goddamn name tag? There we go
found it anyway, the Clippers play the Lakers. People are
not feeling good in the chat, I'm a little terrified
about it. Alex Webb is going to the game at
Cryptocom Arena, which is awesome. I appreciate that. There we
go these bastards. Good luck, Alex. I don't think you'll
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need it, but I think good luck to everybody tonight.
I can finally get there we go. Now we're back.
Sorry about that, everybody. I know everyone was invested in
the name tag design as I was just there. So
this is a great point that Mexican Nara same. Zoo
should feast tonight. The Clippers are not. The Clippers will
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not be playing uh DeAndre Ayton. The Lakers are gonna
start Jackson Hayes. So Zoo, I mean, Zoo was phenomenal
versus the Calves. Zoo's had a great last ten games.
He's averaging twenty and thirteen over the last ten games
of Viatza zubots is. So there's momentum, right, there's there's
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a lot of momentum for Zobots to have a good game.
This is a very important Group B NBA Cup game.
Adam Osland, who is anti NBA Cup, is not on
right now, but I would like to win this game
for Cup reasons because it would be fun to I
don't know who cares if they make fun of the Clippers,
it's gonna happen anyway. The Clippers are probably gonna start Harden,
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Done Collins, Kawhi, and Zoo. This lineup was a plus
nineteen point two overall net in twelve minutes versus the Calves.
Kawhi was moving well versus the Calves. Again, there were
some good things to build on against the Caps, who
are a very good basketball team. We're gonna need his
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defense to be on point tonight, because that's the big question, right.
The Clippers have been killed by guards all season, and
the Lakers are going to be starting Luka, Doncic, Austin Reeves,
Ruey Lebron, and then Hayes, so it's gonna be a
little difficult defensive assignment wise. Matthew Hooks says, as a
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MAVs fan, I feel the pain of my team underperforming
this year. Sure, you do have the number one overall
pick on your team, so enjoy all I say about that.
Thank you for hanging out, Matthew Hooks. The Clippers, like
I said, they've been killed by guards all year. Stopping
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Luca and Reeves is gonna be difficult. The thing that
I don't like about playing Luca in Reeves tonight, which
I mean there's a very good due. Obviously, last game
out versus the Jazz, these two went a combined four
for twenty from three. They're both not shooting well from
three this year. They're both shooting thirty one percent from
three this year, and they take the most threes for
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the Lakers. So I'm worried about that. Because guards have
gotten very comfortable behind the arc against the Clippers. Uh,
done is gonna be on Luca a little bit. I'm
a little worried about the whistle. The Lakers is a
team take the second most free throw attempts per game.
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Luca takes thirteen in a game, and Done's been a
little he goes through some foul happy periods. We're gonna
see done on him a little bit. Obviously, not for
the whole game. Yeah, it's gonna be. It's a tough
task right now for this Clippers defense. Kawhi probably on
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reeves to open right would I think that's gonna get
switched up, and then kawhile will probably shift towards Lebron
as the game progresses. Collins maybe starts on Lebron on
this game. But again, the big issue with the Lakers
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or with the Clippers defense has been guards kind of
feeling really comfortable, and we are playing a guard who
is very comfortable against the Clippers. Jonah is the best
asking do you think we go with Collins on Lebron?
It's usually Kawhi on Lebron. I think we're gonna see
a couple of different looks. I think later in the
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game we'll probably see Kawhi on Lebron for sure. I
think maybe in the beginning, especially because it's Kawhi's second
game back from a ten game absence. He was moving
really well against the Caps, but second game back, I
don't know if immediately he'll go to Lebron, but I
think we will see Kawhi on Lebron and we'll also
see Collins on Lebron. This would be a huge game
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for Derek Jones Junior for sure. Alex Webb, that was
a great point. This is where you've missed up again,
lengthy defender. Yeah, we're gonna talk about Collins. I guess
we can talk about it now because we're gonna talk.
I'll talk about the DeMar Deroz and stuff in a bit.
But Collins has not been good. Obviously, he was great
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coming off the bench when the team kind of had
the pillars there. But his shooting. I think his shooting
percentages should go up. He's shooting the second worst three
point percentage of his career and the worst two point
percentage of his career, so I think that should go up.
The rebounding has a little disappointing. He's it seems like
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he's forcing some stuff and defensively everyone has been bad,
so we can add him into that problem as well.
It's been a bit of a It's not a disaster
for Collins yet, but it might be. It's trending that way.
I guess. I don't like how it's been trending, but
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I do think the three point percentage and the two
point percentage is gonna go up again because it's like
the worst of his mark. I'll get him to the
extension stuff and how that relates to Tamar after we
kind of talked about this game a little bit more. Uh,
we talked about the guards. Luca is gonna try and
get Zoo on switches. We've seen that before. Uh, We've
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seen the horrors of how drop coverage can backfire, is
what my notes here say. So we're probably gonna see
that again. Uh. The Clippers defense has been really bad
at giving up cuts to the basket, and so the
pick and roll defense with Luca and Hayes is just
something to keep an eye on. Hopefully we don't have
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to avert our eyes from it, you know what I mean.
But that's just I'm a little worried about that chunk.
VV says Collins doesn't fit a half court offense never
has get rid of him for Lord and Savior key
on Ellis. I don't know if that would happen. I
mean that would be fun, I guess, but I don't
know if that would happen. Skim three point eighty with
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a fantastic profile pick. It's bad ass. Lisa Simpson says,
what zoos statline would we be happy with? Well, I
don't want to do too many like one for one
comps here, but his last ten games, I mean he
had thirty three and eighteen against the Cavs. I don't
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think we see that efficiency again. He got twenty two
field goal attempts in that one. It'd be nice if
we saw him get twenty two field goal attempts, but
that's been his most in the last twelve or so games.
So if you're if you're at twenty and ten and
you're anything above twenty and ten, I'm happy. But also
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the defense has to be there. Offensively, twenty and ten
sign me up for being obviously content with that, But
the defense. He has a bigger job on defense the offense.
It's not that I'm not worried about the offense obviously,
because it's not been that great. And Harden's had to
carry and will need help in this game, but the
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defense has been horrific. Kind of back to Collins, he's
too athletic. I think LA Clippers film posts a really
good tweet where he was like, College is too athletic
to get beat like this. He's just getting outright and
beat on a fast break against the Cavs. Just annoying. Yeah,
great call. College has thrived on fast paced teams like
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the Hots on the Hawks and the Jazz, but the
Clips play slow half court basketball. Yeah, it's a little tough. Well, also,
it's everything's just different, right, Like he had a full rotation,
I don't think he would be starting, and he was
good off the bench, right. He was showing that that
bench juice that the Clippers needed. Yeah, so this is
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actually himothy oo. This is a good kind of thing
into the benches. The Lakers have a really bad bench
scoring wise. I think it's the lowest scoring bench in
the league. Bogie's questionable for this game. For the Clippers,
having him back would be a theoretical nice shooting boost.
If he is hitting his shots, Kobe Sanders is gonna
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let it fly off the bench. I think Drew Timmy's
gonna get some time for the Lakers. So like the
benches are gonna be weird. Lopez can't be on the
court at the same time as Luca will be. I
don't think Tyler will let that happen. Uh barring, not
a weird whistle or something like that. Right, Like, let's
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just pretend that there's gonna be normal game playing here.
Lopez should not. I mean, he will get cooked by
Luca if he ends up on the switch. I think
there'd be like one possession where he looked okay and
it'd be early and we'd be like, no bad, and
then he would just get destroyed. I don't think uh
marky Mark is saying Bogie's gonna play twenty eight to
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thirty four minutes. I don't know about that. Yeah, that's
a great call Himpathy there's Stagger, Reeves, Luca, and Lebron
with the bench. This is where yeah, man, Lopez, Oh god,
it'll be it'll be interesting. So that's what's difficult about
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the Lakers right now. Uh, it's not just when Luca's
on the bench. Right, Reeves is very good. Lebron is
still Lebron, but he can get to the paint he
can pass, which has killed the Clippers. Uh So I'm
a little worried about this one defensively, Not that I'm
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like feeling great offensively or anything like that, but defensively
is where this one gets rough. Again. Defensively too, the
Lakers are second in free throw attempts per game, which
I don't like. I don't like that originale. I don't think.
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I'm probably not pronouncing that right. So the truth is
be Toom is still the best backup center of the Clips.
Have I trust some more outside of than Lopez. The
Lopez thing is so weird. He's been lat Murray put
it well. He said he's been marooned to behind the
three point line, which is true. And the defense, it's
just like there's flashes. But when you're an old team,
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what you get from a lot of these guys is
flashes of being able to get up right like and
things like that. So it's frustrating. I think that this
game feels like another one of those hardened putting up
an absurd stat at halftime and then the Clippers still
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being down, you know what I mean. Like it feels
like one of those games where it's like Harden's on
pace for thirty for forty eight points and Clippers are
down six or something like that. So I don't feel
super confident on either side of the ball, but I
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feel more confident about the Clippers offense and Drew Timmy.
Drew Timmy is probably gonna get some time to skim
three eighty saying do we need Brook out their cleaners
their backup? Big yeah, empathy, I think is talking about
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Collins here you talking about Lopez because they've both been
underwhelming rebounding wise. That's fair, Uh if the Yeah, the
Lakers have been staggering the bench, but they don't have
a lot of like can flash contributors off the bench,
I guess, But again, I don't feel super good Lopez,
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thank you, Himmathy. Yeah, agreed, it's been bad. He's old.
It's the spry year. Sorry, I'm still, I think technically
supposed to be working. Put your final score predictions into
the chat about Clippers Lakers NBA Cup tonight. We need
this one, We need this one to advance, and well
(15:41):
we'll see what happens. Drive by Buddy saying I don't
really want to see Zoo or Lopez or Luca because
for some reason he shoots good over oh odd Luca.
Excuse me. They don't want to see Zoo or Lopez
on Luca because for some reason he shoots good over
big men from the out side or someone with quick
hands on him. I don't want to see it either,
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but we're gonna probably see it. Uh, he does shoot well,
but you're just like step back three. Whatever we're gonna be.
There's gonna be a lot of this tonight. Okay, that's
There's gonna be a lot of stuff like that, I
think from Clippers fans empathy saying we need the cup
manner Chuck. I know, I'm pro Cup. I would like
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to win the Cup too. This season has been kind
of a nightmare. Okay, So transitioning now, Audio. I don't
think I'm gonna do an ad break or anything. So
you're good there. Sam Ammick was reported he's a good source.
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He's not. He's not in the the negative source category
reported like the DeMar DeRozan stuff. But Inski's saying laughing
at pro Cup. Some people aren't Autam Mason not pro cup.
So DeMar DeRozan supposedly the Clippers are interested. Uh, there's
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been some scuttle butt about John Collins being traded for
DeMar DeRozan, which does work straight up, I don't think
the Clippers should do that. I mentioned earlier. Excuse me
that he's just he's had a horrible shooting start to
the season. I'm not arguing that he's like been good
or anything, but these are like career worse from two
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point and three point percentages. I think those will go up.
I think he just needs more time to see if
he's extension worthy. And to that point, DeMar DeRozan would
be on this team this year and then next season.
He only has ten million dollars as a partial guarantee,
so that again just based on scuttle but they would
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probably move off of that year. So DeMar Derozen would
play this year for the Clippers and then be on
the team anymore. To me, I don't think the Clippers'
success is capped this season, whether if they have DeMar
Derozen right oh instead of John Collins, Like if you
trade away John Collins for DeMar de Rosen, I think
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this team goes just as far as it would had
it had John Collins, and contractually, just looking past even
next year, there's only three guys on the books for
twenty seven to twenty eight, that is zoo, Yannick, and Cam.
So why not give Collins this chance to earn an
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extension so he can fit into this front office's plan.
And if he doesn't earn that extension, he's not on
the team, which doesn't which would be the same exact
scenario if DeMar DeRozan were to be on this team
next season. Yes, we would get some kind of small
value for DeMar DeRozan, but I think they should keep
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Collins specifically for DeMar Duau's. Alex Webb thinks the Clippers
are gonna win one twelve, one oh seven. Who baby
sign me up for the Clippers holding a team to
one oh seven. The Lakers have also run five in
a row, four in a row. I don't. But again,
so I think for for John Collins, I don't think
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they should trade that because it the season where I
think this team can go. Changes nothing if you swap
DeMar Duro's and for John Collins, and I think it
potentially hurts the future a little bit more. That's kind
of where how I feel about it and fit. While okay,
Regional managerer Michael Scott is here and fit wise, it's
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just like it doesn't help the defense, which is the
biggest problem. It does help with maybe turning the ball over.
John Collins can't handle the ball at all, but it's
not a great fit with hert And You're totally right.
It just makes us older. We lose any semblance of youth.
And I know John Collins isn't like incredibly young, but
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he's younger than the Clippers than most of the other Clippers.
I just feel like it's a lateral move in terms
of this season, and I think it's a detrimental move
possibly for the next two or three seasons, just because like,
why not let Collins try and earn an extension, because
I don't think he'd sign one with the Clippers if
we trade them away and then he plays well or something.
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And again not to say that Collins has been good,
it's been rough. I think coming off the bench he
looked good, but he hasn't clicked with the starters. I
just think they should give they should give Collins another
a longer shot, you know, just for the future. Wise,
like no one is on the books in two years.
The only actual player for the Clippers on the books
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in twenty seven twenty is Zoo and there is and
then Yanik and Camp. That's the only guys on the
books for twenty seven to twenty eight, which is kind
of rapidly approaching, and they want to try and they
keep talking about how they're kind of moving on a
little bit. I don't know how getting rid of John
Collins for DeMar Deroze for a rental of DeMar DeRozan
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helps the long term plan it anyway. Uh, you could
also trade DeMar Derozen for Bogie and Lopez, but I
don't know that doesn't make any sense from like uh
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like Yannic. I don't think is ready to be the
backup five. And if they're making this trade, they're not.
They're doing it to try and win more games, so
they would. I don't know. It just it just feels messy.
It doesn't feel like there's a move with DeMar that works.
WHOA we got a crazy Ronald mcpaul said, Clippers need
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to expose the Lakers starting defense. As a Lakers fan
also Clippers fan whirlwind here, if the Clippers don't turn
the ball over and they moved the ball like they
did for periods of time versus the Cavs defense, I
think they have a shot. It's it's really just is
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the defense. The defense is very bad. So those are
kind of my thoughts on Deamar, Like I don't he
doesn't raise the ceiling in any way that I think, like,
we're not the sixth seed right now looking to move
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up for home court advantage, you know, Like law Murray
said a very funny thing that I do kind of
agree with where he talks about a lot of people
are freaking out, and a lot of it is because
maybe there's some newer Clippers fans who hop who came
over when two and three happen and this is the
worst they've ever seen the Clippers do. If that is you,
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that's totally okay. But it's also fine, like everything this
is not. But to my point, sorry, to my point
of the Clippers on the DeMar DeRozan trade, we're not
like fighting for a for home court advantage, right Raymond?
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Are what's up? Raymond? He said, what's up? Shock? I'll
be it into it for a watch party. Let's go clips.
I don't know if I can read this part, uh,
because I want to get you in trouble, but I
will show it on the screen. That'd be very funny.
That's very funny. Also, if you're not, if you haven't
seen any of Eric Buize art recently, he makes elite
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depressed Clippers fan art. It's awesome. He did our background,
which can even see I'm making it worse. Either way,
our background looks awesome. So the DeMar trade, again, we're
not like sitting at the sixth seed looking up trying
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to maybe get home court advantage. The Clippers are five
and twelve. They are just for reference there, I guess
they're only seven games out of the four spot. It's
not that good. Uh So yeah, like we're not We're
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not a piece away from making noise or anything like that.
So I don't see a reason to trade for DeMar
DeRozan when you have a guy you can maybe just
see if he can get he can earn the extension
and then be part of your quasi future. Because again,
I think DeMar DeRozan would be off the team after
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this season because of his contract. So but Enski saying,
I think the Clips are screwed this season regardless, I
just don't want our pick to be too awesome for Okac.
I mean, yeah, I agree too, but like, how many
more games do the Clippers win with DeMar DeRozan instead
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of John Collins? Like, is it that much different? I
think they're gonna play better than they've shown that they
are through these I know it's been seventeen games. I
think they're better than what they've shown through these seventeen games.
I don't think they're world beaters obviously anymore. But I
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just don't see the big difference in this team if
they have DeMar DeRozan instead of John Collins or DeMar
de Rozan instead of Bogie and whatever. Hell yeah, Ronald mcpaul, Darius,
Oh knuckleheads man, they're not wrong with that. Sammy In says,
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I think we need derosen people in the chatter saying
blow it up. We've talked about blowing it up before
on this pod, and I'm gonna wait till we're all together,
because there's what are we blowing it up for a
bunch of second round picks. I just don't know what
to like he makes He helps Harden with some of
the ball handling, for sure. I just don't see the
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difference in ceiling again, because I think it would only
be for this year. Thank you for the counter argument,
Sammy in for if we get Derosan to stabilize the bench,
we get hard and plus de Rosen. I think we
can make the playoff as a plan. I think yeah.
I think playoff with playing is also doable with Collins too.
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Would de Rozan come off the bench as he mentioned
anything about that, I'm sure he would. I just like
in my head he would start because Beel's out, if
Beel's healthy, do they want to Rosen two? I think
you would start. I think because you just put him in.
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Uh duns plays. No, they can't do that because it
dephens be terrible. Huh off the bench, Angel Garcias, what
are we sipping on? This is? Oh, there used to
be ice on this. That is four roses and soda.
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Four roses and a lemon Cello Lacroix. If you want
a delicious whiskey soda mixer, lemon Cello Lacroix makes it
taste like cake. Someone said Himothy, I mean, Chuck, do
we lose without the picks or lose with some level
of picks? Fair? Uh? But I also think the front office.
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I think I've maybe resigned myself to the Clippers, not
blowing it up because the front office has no interest
in that. Balmer doesn't want to put out a shit product.
Not that the product's been elite at five and twelve,
but the idea of an elite product is there, so
I don't know. This also factors into a longer thing
where Harden is really helping sell tickets to the Into
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It Dome, which I hope Steve Baumer is helping him out. Wait, no,
I take that back. I hope Steve Walmer is paying
him the exact amount of money and giving him the
normal perks he should for for helping fill the into
It Dome. Because James Harden is carrying that areada right now?
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I mean, yeah, if Keon Ellis was used in the deal,
that'd be amazing. But are the would the Kings be
dumb enough? I don't know if they'd do that. Yeah,
if the Clippers could get Keon Ellis, that would be
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because that'd be awesome. I'd love that deal if I
got Keon Ellis. But would they do that? I know
they're not playing him, but we're again, we're not dealing
with a rational organization. You know what I mean? I don't.
We're not dealing with an organization that's like, well, we're
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not playing them, let's not trade them. Let's trade him.
They would I know, I agree, I know he's getting DNPS,
but we're not dealing with a rational organization. Yeah, Raymond saying,
news Alert ball with the latest minority investor in Adidas.
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That'd be a good bit. Yeah. See, this is kind
of the starting line of point. Yeah, the starting lineup
was plus nineteen against the Calves. Maybe it just needs
more time. But if we were able to get Keon
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Ellis without turning away John Collins, that'd be sick. Sign
me up for that for sure. Clips for Life, yes, sir,
saying how hard is it to talk to Clips when
they are playing this badly? It's not that hard to
talk about the Clips when they're playing this badly. Will
and I used to do a daily pot. We used
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to Will and I used to was locked on Clips.
That was harder because that was five days a week
when they were playing bad. But it's not bad. It's
also like, again, if you're a Clippers fan, you've seen
this team be really bad, and the team is bad
because they're playing bad. I don't know, It's it's not
as hard as it seems, but I also don't have
to do it every single day. Shout out Dime for
(30:47):
hosting locked on clips and talking about a team with
every single day when they're bad, because the every single
day podcast grind. When they're not playing well, it's not
very fun. Shout out Damien Ace Boogey saying where's Adam?
The other two had to work? Usually it's Adam Os
and William Updyke and myself Chuck Buckler. I technically didn't
(31:12):
have to work, so I think they're all working, but
they have the link tweet at him. Actually, don't tweet
at him. I think they're doing normal things. So if
you're just dropping in to sum it up, pretty nervous
for tonight. The starter showed some good stuff against the Calves,
(31:32):
but guards have been getting off against I'm gonna keep
it in. I'm keeping that phrasing against the Clippers. Sami
In for saying, what do you think the matchups look
like today? Colin's on Luca are done. I think maybe
it starts with done on Luca. They gotta mix the
(31:54):
looks up. Oh, something I haven't talked about. Sorry about this.
I forgot about this in the beginning. They gotta put
Luca in motion on defense like they got. They gotta
put Luca in motion on defense. If they're not doing that,
(32:16):
there's there's an issue. So for tonight, the Clippers very much.
Make Luca work on defense. We know that from all
the MAVs games. Make Lebron move around. I know he's
he's he is Lebron, but he's old. Make Jackson Hayes
have to make decisions. They don't foul a lot. I
(32:39):
think like teams are. Yeah, they only give up the
fourth most free throws per game, so again, making their
lesser defenders have to make decisions really helps or could
help the Clippers. They're also thirtieth the turnover They turn
(33:01):
the ball over a lot. So if the Clippers are
able to mitigate their boneheaded mistakes, if the Clippers can
just not, if the Clippers can cut out the like
four turnovers per game that make you want to punch
a hole in your TV, I their chances are a
(33:22):
lot better tonight. Obviously I feel good about that. So
I think trouser Jay Slack's asking Kawhi on Reeves then,
or does he get the Lebron assignment to hide Collins
on Reeves so I think. I think Kawhi is going
(33:44):
to be on Lebron closer to the end of the game,
and he might be on Reeves to start just to
prevent some kind of hot start. I don't know, it's
an issue. We have a thunderfan in the chat. Get
out of here. You're welcome. I know we're twenty ninth,
but we need to not be twenty ninth. If we
(34:06):
could be twenty fifth, if the Clippers are just twenty
fifth in turnovers per game tonight, I feel better about
our chances. Someone said something, yeah, Sammy said what's up? Sammy?
And for I think this is the first time you've
been on the stream, so what's up? This has to
(34:27):
be a big Zoobots game. Yes, Zubots again. The last
ten games, Zoo is averaging like twenty and thirteen. I
think I think expecting twenty and ten from Zoo tonight
is completely reasonable if you're a Clippers fan, and we
should expect that. Because it's against Jackson Hayes, Zoo should
(34:48):
be able to go off again. The pick and roll
with Harden and Zoo against Luca and Jackson Hayes should
be used a lot. It probably will be, but it
definitely should be. You know what I'm saying. We need
to put him in motion a lot on defense. Trowser J.
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Slacks is gonna be at the game. That'll be a
good time. Man. I haven't been to Crypto in so long,
possibly unpopular take. I very much miss the convenience of
Crypto as a place to go watch games. It was
a fun time d t LA Friday nights for the
(35:30):
Clippers at Staples. That was a good time, all right.
I think I'm gonna get out of here. Thank you
for hanging out. If you're listening on audio, you miss
the live stream. If you want to hang out on
the live stream, subscribe to YouTube dot Comish at Clippers
podcast Usually it's myself, Adam Oz and William Updyke. We're
(35:50):
gonna be kind of spotty with coverage this week again
because of the holiday. Sammy inf saying I think hardin
On ironically would be a good Luca defender. He's very
strong and does Luke is fabating tendencies and the low
post for sure. We'll see how the foot speed is again.
I'm worried about the outside shooting from Luca and Austin
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briefs if you're listening to this later, I hope. I
hope they continue to shoot thirty one from three. I
hope that happens tonight, but we'll see. Thank you for
everyone for hanging out in the chat. I hope everyone
has a good holiday. If you're not celebrating the holiday,
hope you have a good couple of days off, take advantage,
(36:32):
have a safe weekend, like and subscribe all that good stuff,
and we will see y'all probably over the weekend. Anyway,
let's go clips. Here's to a win tonight. Here's getting
that NBA cup. I have been Chuck Mockler. Sorry I'm
laughing because someone says I hate the into an app.
(36:52):
No comment, but feel you all right. Thank you everybody.
Have a great rest of your day and weekend. Holiday
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